The man of the year according to the TIME magazine
After 85 years, the Person of the Year has become an institution: whereas in one sense it is a sort of intellectual parlor game, it also challenges TIME’s editors and readers to reflect on the events of the past year critically, dispassionately, and rigorously.
- 1927 Charles Lindbergh
- 1928 Walter P. Chrysler
- 1929 Owen D. Young
- 1930 Mahatma Gandhi
- 1931 Pierre Laval
- 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1933 Hugh S. Johnson
- 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1935 Haile Selassie
- 1936 Wallis Warfield Simpson
- 1937 Gen. and Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek
- 1938 Adolf Hitler
- 1939 Joseph Stalin
- 1940 Winston Churchill
- 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1942 Joseph Stalin
- 1943 Gen. George C. Marshall
- 1944 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1945 Harry S. Truman
- 1946 James F. Byrnes
- 1947 Gen. George C. Marshall
- 1948 Harry S. Truman
- 1949 Winston Churchill
- 1950 G.I. Joe
- 1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
- 1952 Queen Elizabeth II
- 1953 Konrad Adenauer
- 1954 John Foster Dulles
- 1955 Harlow H. Curtice
- 1956 Hungarian Patriot
- 1957 Nikita Khrushchev
- 1958 Charles DeGaulle
- 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1960 U.S. Scientists
- 1961 John F. Kennedy
- 1962 Pope John XXIII
- 1963 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1965 Gen. William Westmoreland
- 1966 Americans under 25
- 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman, Lovell
- 1969 The Middle Americans
- 1970 Willy Brandt
- 1971 Richard M. Nixon
- 1972 Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger
- 1973 Judge John J. Sirica
- 1974 King Faisal
- 1975 American Women
- 1976 Jimmy Carter
- 1977 Anwar Sadat
- 1978 Deng Xiaoping
- 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini
- 1980 Ronald Reagan
- 1981 Lech Walesa
- 1982 The Personal Computer
- 1983 Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov
- 1984 Peter Ueberroth
- 1985 Deng Xiaoping
- 1986 Corazon Aquino
- 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1988 Endangered Earth
- 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1990 George H. W. Bush
- 1991 Ted Turner
- 1992 Bill Clinton
- 1993 The Peacemakers: Rabin, Arafat, Mandela, De Klerk
- 1994 Pope John Paul II
- 1995 Newt Gingrich
- 1996 Dr. David Ho
- 1997 Andrew Grove
- 1998 Bill Clinton andKenneth Starr
- 1999 Jeff Bezos
- 2000 George W. Bush
- 2001 Rudolph Giuliani
- 2002 The Whistleblowers
- 2003 The American Soldier
- 2004 George W. Bush
- 2005 Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates
- 2006 You: Internet-based user-generated content (uploading via blogs, web 2.0, Myspace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, and other means)
- 2007 Vladimir Putin
- 2008 Barack Obama
- 2009 Ben Bernanke
- 2010 Mark Zuckerberg
- 2011 The Protestor
- 2012 Barack Obama
Font: Time
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